"Love Like This" is a song by American recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Evans, Ron Lawrence, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Clarence Emery, and Schon Crawford, for her second studio album Keep the Faith (1998), with production helmed by Lawrence and Combs. Built around a looped sample from "Chic Cheer," performend by American disco group Chic and penned by band members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers,[1] the song initially impacted on US radios on September 15, 1998 as the album's lead single. A dance-influenced R&B cut with heavy hip hop and disco elements, lyrically, Evans as the female protagonist sings that she feels happy to have found an unexpected, yet inexperienced love for a man.
The song was well received by music critics, many of which complimented its soulful uptemponature and called it a standout track from the Keep the Faith. Commercially, "Love Like This" became one of Evans's biggest successes: It charted within the top thirty in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking her highest-charting solo single to date. On the component Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart, the song reached number 2; it was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The song was well received by music critics, many of which complimented its soulful uptemponature and called it a standout track from the Keep the Faith. Commercially, "Love Like This" became one of Evans's biggest successes: It charted within the top thirty in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking her highest-charting solo single to date. On the component Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart, the song reached number 2; it was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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